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5 Dollars - Leonard I Battle for Omaha Beach
| Issuer | Hutt River Province |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 5 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | HUTT RIVER PROVINCE NEW QUEENSLAND MINT 5 FIVE DOLLARS |
| Reverse description | A detailed commemorative scene depicts the Battle of Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings of World War II. In the upper field, multiple military aircraft fly in formation over a turbulent seascape, while infantry soldiers are shown storming the beach under fire in the lower field. A prominently rendered foreground soldier in full combat gear advances with rifle in hand, capturing the intensity of the assault. The legend WORLD WAR II arcs along the upper periphery, flanked on both sides by a ring of five-pointed stars. The inscriptions LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST appear in the right field, with the date 1992 in the exergue. |
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Hutt River Province — the self-declared micronation established by Leonard Casley in Western Australia in 1970 following a dispute with the state government over wheat production quotas — issued a long series of commemorative pieces throughout the 1980s and 1990s, largely targeting the novelty collector market. The "Battle for Omaha Beach" issue appeared in 1992, near the crest of that commemorative wave. These pieces circulated only in the most technical sense; Hutt River's monetary claims were never recognized by Australian authorities.